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HoItSJ:  of  RErRESENTATIYES,  Jan.  11,  1S64.— Laidon  the 

table  and  ordered  to  be  piinted, 

[Presented  by  the  Ciutr.] 


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Expressive  of  the  determination  of  Georgia  to  prosecute  the  present 
■\vMr  with  the  utmost  vigor  and  energy. 

Whereas,  at  a  session  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
Georgia,  in  the  year  1 861.  the  following  resolutions  were  adopted  : 

Resolved,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  this  General  Assembly,  that  the 
separation  of  those  States,  now  forming  the  Confederate  States  of 
America,  from  the  Unite<l  States,  is,  and  ought  to  be,  final  and  irrevo- 
cable, and  that  Georgia  will,  under  no  circumstances,  entertain  any 
]»roposition,  from  any  quarter,  which  may  have  for  its  object  a  restor- 
ation or  reconstruction  of  the  late  Union,  on  any  terms  or  conditions 
whatever. 

7?f'.Wi'crf,  That  the  war  which  the  United  States  are  waging  upon 
the  Confedetate  States  should  be  met  on  our  part  with  the  utmost 
vigor  and  energy,  until  our  independence  and  nationality  are  uncon- 
ditionally acknowledged  by  the  United  States. 

Resolved,  I'hat  Georgia  pledges  herself  to  her  sister  States  of  the 
Confederacy,  that  she  will  stand  by  them  throughout  the  struggle, 
she  will  contribute  all  the  means  which  her  resources  will  supply,  so 
far  as  the  same  may  be  neiiessary,  to  the  support  of  the  common  cause, 
and  will  not  consent  to  I;!y  down  anna  until  peace  ip  established  on  the 
ha-^is  of  the  foregoing  resolutions. 

Whereas.  The  enunciation  ot  said  resolutions  is  as  truly  expressive 
of  the  position  of  Georgia  to-day  as  at  the  time  of  their  adoption  ;  and 
whereas,  the  meeting  of  another  General  Assembly  of  the  State,  after 
a  lapse  of  two  years  more  of  struggle  for  independence,  presents  an 
occasion  peculiarly  appropriate  to  the  renewal  of  these  declarations, 
and  that  the  world  may  know  that  Georgia  does  not  tire  of  the  war 
until  her  purpose  is  accomplished,  nor  abate  anything  of  the  spirit  and 
determination  manifested  by  said  resolution  ;  Therefore, 

Resolvtd,  That  this  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in  Gen- 
eral Assembly  met,  with  a  fixed  and  unaltered  purpose  to  stand  by 
them,  do  re-affirra  and  re-adopt  said  resolutions  in  their  letter  and 
spirit. 

Resolved  further,  That  the  Governor  cause  copie.s  of  these  resolii- 


tioiiR  to  bo  transmitted  to  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States,  and 
the  (:Jovernor«<  of  the  severnl  States  of  the  Confederacy,  and  also  to  the 
President  of  the  Senate,  and  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives of  the  Confedirate  Congress,  with  the  request  that  they  naus»e 
said  resolutions  to  be  read  before  their  respective  bodies. 

A.  R:.  WRIGHT, 

Pvpsident  of  the  Senate. 
L.  H.  Kenan, 

Secretary  of  the  Senate. 

THOMAS  HARDEMAN,  Jr., 

Speaker  of  the  Hoitse. 

L.    CARKIXfrTOX, 

C/erk  of  the  House. 
Assented  to  Nov.  24,  ISG.i. 

JOSEPH  B,    BROWN,   Gm^er^mr. 


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